Seong-Jin Cho – Winner Of The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2015 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Seong-Jin Cho – Winner Of The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2015 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:33 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present the debut solo album from Seong-Jin Cho, winner of the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition. Cho took the coveted first prize, among the most prestigious titles in the world of classical music. He was named winner on Tuesday 20 October 2015, following three weeks and four stages of competition in Warsaw. This recording contains highlights from the 21-year-old South Korean pianist’s recital rounds.

The classical music landscape is so littered with competitions in which the fix is in for a dutifully colorless musician that one might justifiably treat the 21-year-old South Korean Seong-Jin Cho with skepticism after hearing that he won the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. His performances there were recorded in October of 2015 and released by Deutsche Grammophon a scant six weeks later, and the good news is that Cho is a competition winner of a different stripe. These are entirely innovative readings of Chopin standards, rendered with muscular excitement. The best comes first on the program here with the set of Preludes, Op. 28, where Cho strips out any hint of hazy mood music or late-Romantic neurasthenia, focusing on the counterpoint and turning the remarkable level of dissonance from a sort of chromatic wash into a pure extension of Bachian principles. Sample one of the well-known preludes, such as the Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (track four), to learn what you’re getting here: tough, detailed readings that make you hear the music anew. The Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, is a bit less daring, but it’s a forceful, absorbing performance of the work throughout, and the single Nocturne and Polonaise each suggest new avenues of interpretation in those genres. Hats off, gentlemen (and gentlewomen) – a major new Chopin interpreter!

Seong-Jin Cho
Born on 28 May 1994, in Seoul (South Korea), Seong-Jin Cho is today based in Paris. He won the International Fry- deryk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2008 and the Hamamatsu Piano Competition in Japan in 2009, as well as Third Prizes in both the Tchai- kovsky Competition in Russia in 2011 and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv in 2014. He has performed in con- cert with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the French Radio, Czech and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras under Myung-Whun Chung, the Munich Phil- harmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkarnov, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski, and both the Russian National Orchestra and Basel Symphony Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev. He has toured Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland,Israel, China and the US. He has appeared in both concerts and recitals at the Tokyo Opera City, in Osaka, at the Moscow Con- servatory and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He has participated in numerous European festivals, including St. Petersburg, Moscow, Duszniki-Zdrój and Cracow, as well as festivals in New York and Castleton. As a chamber musi- cian, he has been invited to work with the outstanding violinist Kyung-Wha Chung.

Tracklist:
01. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 1. In C Major (00:37)
02. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 2. In A Minor (02:10)
03. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 3. In G Major (00:55)
04. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 4. In E Minor (02:05)
05. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 5. In D Major (00:31)
06. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 6. In B Minor (01:57)
07. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 7. In A Major (00:41)
08. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 8. In F Sharp Minor (01:45)
09. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 9. In E Major (01:28)
10. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 10. In C Sharp Minor (00:27)
11. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 11. In B Major (00:35)
12. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 12. In G Sharp Minor (01:10)
13. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 13. In F Sharp Major (03:11)
14. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 14. In E Flat Minor (00:33)
15. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 15. In D Flat Major (05:45)
16. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 16. In B Flat Minor (01:03)
17. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 17. In A Flat Major (03:06)
18. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 18. In F Minor (00:58)
19. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 19. In E Flat Major (01:19)
20. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 20. In C Minor (01:58)
21. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 21. In B Flat Major (01:47)
22. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 22. In G Minor (00:42)
23. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 23. In F Major (00:52)
24. Seong-Jin Cho – 24 Préludes, Op.28: 24. In D Minor (02:32)
25. Seong-Jin Cho – Nocturne In C Minor, Op.48 No.1 (06:07)
26. Seong-Jin Cho – Piano Sonata No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.35: 1. Grave – Doppio movimento (05:22)
27. Seong-Jin Cho – Piano Sonata No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.35: 2. Scherzo – Più lento – Tempo I (05:50)
28. Seong-Jin Cho – Piano Sonata No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.35: 3. Marche funèbre (Lento) (08:02)
29. Seong-Jin Cho – Piano Sonata No.2 In B Flat Minor, Op.35: 4. Finale (Presto) (01:29)
30. Seong-Jin Cho – Polonaise In A Flat Major, Op.53 (07:23)

Download: